Best of the Joy of Painting"Surprising Falls"
Guest artist Steve Ross enhances the beauty of a lovely mountain with splashing waterfall and autumn foliage. D

11:00 am

Kimchi Chronicles"The Rice Chronicles"
Rice, the bread and butter of the Korean table, is explored from Busan, Korea's second largest city, all the way to Seoul. Along the way, Marja and her dear friend, the actress Heather Graham, learn about instant rice, tteok (a pasta-like ingredient made of ground rice) and visit Bibigo, a new chain of contemporary restaurants serving fresh variations of bibimbap. Back in New York, Marja and Jean-Georges create their own version of bibimbap, along with sushi-like kimbap, kimchi fried rice and Jean-Georges' famous ginger fried rice. D

11:30 am

P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table"The Joy of Canning"
P. Allen Smith's Aunt Genny shares her secrets of canning. Allen uses mandarin oranges to make one of his favorite marmalades that he then puts to use making a cake. Finally, he tours an old-fashioned canning company.G

12:00 pm

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish"El Comienzo (The Beginning)"
This episode introduces numbers, how to ask directions, and basic phrases and questions one might use when getting to know someone.G

12:30 pm

Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish"Perdido (Lost)"
This episode introduces school subjects, how the grading system works in Spanish secondary schools, and basic conversation about school, food, and traveling around Sevilla.G

1:00 pm

Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices"Staying On Topic"
Martha Duran-Contreras is a bilingual second-grade teacher from Santa Monica, California with many racially mixed and bilingual students. She provides each child with individualized instruction, reviewing their progress and helping them to set goals and identify steps toward achieving those goals. We see her work with individual students during an independent writing activity where each student is challenged to "stay on topic. D

1:30 pm

Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices"100 Days of Reading"
In a Chicago neighborhood, Shari Frost runs a mixed first- and second-grade classroom that includes students with physical and learning disabilities. We meet her class on the 100th day of school as they engage in a math/reading lesson on what they could buy with $ 100, read a poem featuring the number 100, and celebrate the milestone day. Mrs. Frost capitalizes on her students' age differences by encouraging peer support. D

2:00 pm

Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The"Beyond The Mechanical Universe"
The world of electricity and magnetism, and 20th-century discoveries of relativity and quantum mechanics. D

2:30 pm

Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The"Static Electricity"
Eighteenth-century electricians knew how to spark the interest of an audience with the principles of static electricity. D

3:00 pm

Discovering Psychology - Updated Edition"Cognitive Neuroscience"
Cognitive neuroscience represents the attempt to understand mental processes at the level of the brain's functioning and not merely from information-processing models and theories. It relies heavily on an empirical analysis of what is happening in the brain, and where, when a person thinks, reasons, decides, judges, encodes information, recalls information, learns, and solves problems.G

3:30 pm

Discovering Psychology - Updated Edition"Cultural Psychology"
This newly emerging field is integrating cross-cultural research with social and personality psychology, anthropology, and other social sciences. Its main new perspective is focused on how cultures construct selves and other central aspects of individual personality, beliefs, values, emotions, and much of what we are and do.G

4:00 pm

Design Squad Nation"Musical Bike"
Judy and Adam meet Beatriz in her hometown of Emeryville, CA, to help her combine her passion for music and bike building. Working at The Crucible -- a non- profit educational foundry and metal fabrication shop -- they design and build a pedal-powered bike organ for Beatriz to unveil at her high school block party. D

4:30 pm

Biz Kid$"Understanding Your Paycheck"
What's on your stub, bub? The Biz Kids use a modern American pay stub to explore various social movements of the last century. From unions to social security and from workman's compensation to the 401(k) plans of today-it's all there on the stub. Plus, you'll meet entrepreneurs and explore how they started their businesses. D

5:00 pm

The Electric Company"A Whole New Francine"
Francine decides to be a nicer person, but is it just a ploy to get invited into The Electric Company?. D

5:30 pm

Cyberchase"A Battle of Equals"
Hacker pollutes cyberspace with dangerous cyberstatic by tampering with four satellites designed to keep everything free from cyber- static cling. But is his plan only to trash cyberspace - or does he have something even more devious up his cloak? The kids learn the answer as they use balance scales and equations to restore the satellites and save Motherboard. The Big Idea: You can use an equation - a statement that two different expressions are equal to each other - to find unknown values that make the equation true. D

6:00 pm

Quilting Arts"Art Meets Stitch"
This episode looks at thread and stitch and their impact on projects. Rebecca Kemp Brent starts us out with a small drawstring bag. All sorts of stitching is prominent, from the machine-embroidered redwork designs to the enhancements with needle felting, punch needle work, ribbon embroidery, and beading. D

6:30 pm

Best of the Joy of Painting"Surprising Falls"
Guest artist Steve Ross enhances the beauty of a lovely mountain with splashing waterfall and autumn foliage. D

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence"Harvest Time"
Inspired by freshly picked vegetables, Joanne prepares a vegetarian feast. She begins by making a luscious butternut squash soup. And then for a twist with her student Sasha she cooks up some Gnocchi with Brown Butter using semolina instead of potatoes along with Kale with Garlic and White Balsamic. D

8:00 pm

Hometime"North Woods Trees"
The HOMETIME crew plants site-appropriate trees after a storm and builds a crib for firewood cut and split from the damaged timber. D

Kimchi Chronicles"The Rice Chronicles"
Rice, the bread and butter of the Korean table, is explored from Busan, Korea's second largest city, all the way to Seoul. Along the way, Marja and her dear friend, the actress Heather Graham, learn about instant rice, tteok (a pasta-like ingredient made of ground rice) and visit Bibigo, a new chain of contemporary restaurants serving fresh variations of bibimbap. Back in New York, Marja and Jean-Georges create their own version of bibimbap, along with sushi-like kimbap, kimchi fried rice and Jean-Georges' famous ginger fried rice. D